This Saturday, the police dispersed a demonstration authorized by the neo-Nazi group Núcleo Nacional in the center of Madrid and arrested three people, as reported by the government delegation. The procession, with around 700 participants, traveled along the Paseo del Prado to the Congress to demand the expulsion of migrants and that Europe belongs exclusively to Christians. The intervention of the police was greeted with runs, a burnt container, motorcycles on the ground, rubbish bins completely burst and, in the background, the sound of deterrent shots from the officers.
The tension has lasted for about half an hour, but it hasn’t been constant. After the first blow delivered by an officer to a protester, the organizers shouted at those present to retreat and took away flags, banners and all accessories with the symbols of the ultra association. “The demonstration is over,” Ivan, one of its leaders, said into a megaphone.
The far-right march in front of Congress breaks up with gunfire. Some protesters destroyed public furniture as they fled. pic.twitter.com/3myuxhebFB
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Some young people approached the police cordon, near the Neptuno roundabout and, while always measuring the distance, confronted the riot police: “You have a subnormal son, don’t think about it, make it the National Police”, they chanted. Some of them filled their pockets with pebbles collected from the ground, just in case, while others left.
The mass of people dressed in black, with paramilitary aesthetics, dispersed along the Paseo del Prado in the direction of Atocha station. When it seemed that everything was over, the police sirens sounded again. Lope de Vega street, a few meters from the Congress, became a mousetrap in a few seconds. The group of ultras, seeing themselves surrounded, began to flee in the direction of Via Jesús. During the retreat they didn’t leave a motorbike stopped, they blocked the road with a container and, at the end of the road, they set fire to another.
The neighborhood of Las Letras, with its narrow and dark streets, has long been the scene of a chase. The riot police ran with helmets and shields in their hands without having a clear idea of where the young people they were looking for were. The terraces of the bars were filled with clean-shaven, athletic men dressed in black. It could be anyone.
With that moment of confusion, the march called by the National Nucleus ended, an association which, according to its own words, brings together fascists, Nazis, Francoists and Phalangists. The idea was to march to commemorate the second anniversary of the protests in via Ferraz, in front of the PSOE headquarters, as a protest against the amnesty law for those convicted in the Catalan secessionist trial. This time they chose Congress because, in the words of one of its leaders, Isabel Peralta, “if the PP were in government the same thing would happen.”
